gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits (3) Linux Manual Page
gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits – API function
Synopsis
#include <gnutls/gnutls.h> void gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits(gnutls_certificate_credentials_t res, unsigned int max_bits, unsigned int max_depth);
Arguments
- gnutls_certificate_credentials_t res
- is a gnutls_certificate_credentials structure
- unsigned int max_bits
- is the number of bits of an acceptable certificate (default 8200)
- unsigned int max_depth
- is maximum depth of the verification of a certificate chain (default 5)
Description
This function will set some upper limits for the default verification function, gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2(), to avoid denial of service attacks. You can set them to zero to disable limits.Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <bugs [at] gnutls.org>.Home page: http://www.gnutls.org
Copyright
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